In 2020, Pope Francis may prove to be a great friend to Islam GlobeDebate
Pope Francis blesses the crowd from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking Saint Peter's Square, during the New Year Angelus prayer in the Vatican on Jan. 1, 2020.Michael W. Higgins is the distinguished professor of Catholic thought at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.
Nowhere is the difference between the two popes more evident than in their approaches to Islam. Early in his papacy, in September, 2006, Benedict gave his controversial University of Regensburg address, “Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and reflections,” a dense work not given to soundbites or immediate comprehension by those outside the world of theological discourse .
For Pope Francis, relations between the Catholic world and Islam became a spiritual and political priority. In part this was an effort to continue the strategy of reparation that Benedict, post-Regensburg, had himself initiated. But it was also conceived as a more hands-on, person-to-person undertaking that relegated doctrinal and historical controversies to the side, opting for an encounter of like spirits rather than like minds.
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